holiday – My Ideal Traveling

A sanctuary as coach

mymin — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 12:46:04 +0000

My personal trainer is traveling. It is a coach who is very pretentious because he asks to put all my abilities into play and to free them, allowing me to perceive and receive all the inputs coming from the outside. But above all it leads me to get involved making me discover resources often unknown even to myself. It happened in Thailand, in what I consider one of the most “profound” experiences I have ever done and which has allowed me to descend in my depth.

The theater of this new route is the island of Koh Samui, where an ancient quarry used by Buddhist monks as a place of refuge for meditation and spiritual retreat is today a true center of personal wellbeing (Kamalaya) in which “flowers” the human spirit. Renamed Kingdom (Alaya) of Lutus (Kamal), peacefully nestled on a slope of a tropical hill sloping down to a quiet beach, this sanctuary of holistic well-being taught me to make all my energies go in one direction. Growth, change, regeneration have been steps of a path of harmonization that has had positive repercussions on my entire lifestyle.

In meditation and silence, practicing yoga and following an itinerary of “rapprochement with life”, designed by a team of naturopaths, taking into account my experience and my goals, I re-possessed myself of what I lost. Serenity, strength, tranquility and a clear view on my life. A journey that required great openness and a desire for rebirth, but which strengthened my emotional potential. When I returned, I realized how much it had changed me, how it had allowed me to reinterpret my vision of the world into a new key, allowing me to understand my power. The journey to Kamalaya has taught me to let my true being flow, abandoning the past and opening up courageously to the present. My center.

Yoga holiday or retreat? Approach the Yoga to reset

mymin — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 08:01:22 +0000

I did not approach the yoga world casually. I lived a period of great tensions, when body and mind traveled on parallel tracks with inevitable emotional and physical blackouts, clear signs of how it was essential to change my lifestyle. My change came with the opportunity to take part in a yoga holiday. At the beginning I was only curious, so the initial approach was soft. Approaching this practice progressively allowed me to understand if I felt it in my chords, which repercussion had in my experience even if far from everyday life, what feelings it caused in me. The presence of other people who wanted to experience – but leaving space to the pure pleasure of the holiday – was a precious pad to begin a path of awakening.

From the yoga holiday to the retreat, the step was short but reasoned. Being much more focused on the practice, often one to one, this solution was the natural evolution of my personal research itinerary, of connection with myself, of reappropriation of that harmony between soul-body I had long been missing. A yoga retreat is a real opportunity to disconnect and going from learning to listen, forgetting the external “noise” and redesigning your spaces and time. An experience with a high rate of emotional involvement that requires clear mind to capture all the signals and inputs coming from our conscious-unconscious. But the benefits it offers go even further and speak the language of pure well-being, thanks to the release of energy, the revision of the lifestyle – from nutrition to sleep – and the meeting with people on the same path. Many years after that first holiday, a long road has been made and many revolutions have been undertaken: yoga, which was its initiator and detonator, is today a faithful partner.